Sassá

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Retired
4 Feb 2028
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13 Edition

The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Jiang Zhipeng out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Shenzhen Peng City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Shenzhen Peng City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wesley Moraes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

When it matters, Jordi Mboula plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Ji Jiabao gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Sassá takes up the language

The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.

Market26 Oct 2026

The stand keeps filling up for Jordi Mboula

Somebody from Henan FC has seen every one of Jordi Mboula’s last few games. Nobody travels that far that often out of curiosity, and everybody at Shenzhen Peng City knows it.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jiang Zhipeng breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market12 Oct 2026

Wesley Moraes asks to leave Shenzhen Peng City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Time is catching up with Sassá

Everybody at Shenzhen Peng City saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Shenzhen Peng City are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Shenzhen Peng City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. An Zhicheng is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Duan-Liu Yu has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Shenzhen Peng City know it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Eden Kartsev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shenzhen Peng City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Time is catching up with Leleco

Everybody at Shenzhen Peng City saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Match26 Sep 2026

Shenzhen Peng City and Zhejiang FC take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Jordi Mboula has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Peng Junjie on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Duan-Liu Yu could have had three

10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

7 Edition

The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Shenzhen Peng City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wesley Moraes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market14 Sep 2026

One of our own: Jin Xiaobin joins the Shenzhen Peng City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jin Xiaobin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market14 Sep 2026

Hou Ang steps up from the Shenzhen Peng City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hou Ang has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No place for Sassá in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Shenzhen Peng City are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Match12 Sep 2026

Shenzhen Peng City share the spoils with Wuhan Three Towns

A 1‑1 draw with Wuhan Three Towns leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Duan-Liu Yu has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Peng Junjie on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Peng Junjie after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Kaká finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Shenzhen Peng City have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Looking ahead14 Sep 2026

Yu Rui goes back to face Shanghai Port

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Yu Rui’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Shenzhen Peng City needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

  • Squad Kaká still has not settled
  • The dugout Yu Rui does not fit this one
  • Player ratings Kaká changes it off the bench
6 Edition

The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Felipe Chiqueti

Shenzhen Peng City asked and Athletico Paranaense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The formation has left Kaká behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Shenzhen Peng City will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Shenzhen Peng City

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Wesley Moraes loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Wesley Moraes. Shenzhen Peng City will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Market7 Sep 2026

Kaká brings the grey hairs Shenzhen Peng City lacked

At 38, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market7 Sep 2026

Shenzhen Peng City bring in an old head

Sassá is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

A reunion for Jiang Zhipeng

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wuhan Three Towns in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief